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▸ adjective: (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
▸ noun: (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
▸ noun: (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
▸ noun: (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
▸ noun: (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
▸ noun: (law) The primary participant in a crime.
▸ noun: Either party in a duel.
▸ noun: (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
▸ noun: (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
▸ noun: (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
▸ noun: The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
▸ noun: One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
▸ noun: (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
▸ noun: A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
▸ noun: (computing) A security principal.
▸ noun: A main character or lead actor.
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